Speaking Activities

ex. 1

Match the activity and its definition.

1. Role Play f a) On a given topic, students can produce ideas in a

limited time. Learners should generate ideas quickly
and freely are not be criticized for their ideas.
2. Information Gap D b) Students can conduct them on selected topics
with various people. It is a good idea that the teacher
provides a rubric to students so that they know what
type of questions they can ask. It gives students a
chance to practice their speaking ability outside the
classroom and helps them to become socialized. After
this activity, each student can present his or her study
to the class.
3. Brainstorming a c) The students may aim to arrive at a conclusion,
share ideas about an event, or find solutions in their
groups. At the end, the class decides on the winning
group who defended the idea in the best way
4. Storytelling g d) In this activity, students are supposed to be
working in pairs. One student will have the information
that other partner does not have and the partners will
share their information. This activity can serve many
purposes such as solving a problem or collecting
information. Each partner plays an important role
because the task cannot be completed if the partners do
not provide the information the others need.
5. Interviews b e) This activity is based on several sequential
pictures. Students are asked to tell the story taking
place in the sequential pictures by paying attention to
the criteria provided by the teacher as a rubric. Rubrics
can include the vocabulary or structures they need to
use while narrating.
6. Story Completion f) Students pretend they are in various social
h contexts and have a variety of social roles. In such
activities the teacher gives information to the learners
such as who they are and what they think or feel. E.g.
the teacher can tell the student: "You are David, you go
to the doctor and tell him what happened last night,
and…"
7. Picture Narrating g) Students can briefly summarize a tale or story
E they heard from somebody beforehand, or they may
create their own stories to tell their classmates. It
 fosters creative thinking and helps students express
ideas in the format of beginning, development, and
ending, including the characters and setting a story has
to have. Students also can tell riddles or jokes.
8. Discussion h) This is a very enjoyable, whole-class, free-
/debates С speaking activity for which students sit in a circle. A
teacher starts to tell a story, but after a few sentences he
or she stops narrating. Each student starts to narrate
from the point where the previous one stopped. Each
student is supposed to add from four to ten sentences.
Students can add new characters, events, descriptions
and so on.

ex. 2

What are the types of the following examples?

1 discussion

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